It was an insanely busy week this week, and we also ran SMX Advanced during all the chaos. We had Google tell that the June 2021 core update finished rolling out on June 12th… …
Month: June 2021
Google Tests Article Carousel For Author Knowledge Panels
Google is now testing showing article carousel sliders within the knowledge panel for some journalists or authors. It would show in the knowledge panel section for when you search for their name. …
Is Google Search Unrepresented By Google & The Media?
It has bothered me for the past several years now that it seems both Google and the mainstream media treat Google’s main revenue driver, main product and service in such an underrepresented manner. I see media and Google talk about …
Gary Illyes Talks On Information Retrieval At Google Search
Gary Illyes of Google spent a nice amount of time talking in the last Search Off The Record podcast about information retrieval. If you have not read anything in-depth about this topic, I highly recommend you listen to what Gary …
Google Tests Arrow Up In Footer Of Mobile Search Results
The other day we saw Google testing a magnifying glass in the bottom right footer of the mobile search results. Now I am seeing Google test an arrow up, that when clicked on, jumps the searcher to the top of …
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 17, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Gary Illyes from Google basically said that there is not much you can …
2021 SEO Periodic Table Now Available
10 years ago, the folks at Search Engine Land (that includes me) released the first edition of the SEO Periodic Table. Since then, we’ve updated the table a few times as SEO has changed over the years. We did it …
Google: There Isn’t All That Much Trick In Search
Google has published its most recent Search Off The Record podcast, and it is filled with a lot of good nuggets like always, but I wanted to highlight one part of it where Gary Illyes from Google said that “there …
Google Tests Refinement Bubbles In People Also Ask
Google is testing search refinement bubbles and selectors in the people also ask area of the search results. So the people also ask box comes up and then you can refine those options by clicking on the search refinement bubbles.…
Google Browse More Ideas Search Feature
Google on mobile search has a new box for “browse more ideas” for some queries. This box shows is a fancy query refinement to get you to do more searches to refine your query to something more specific. …
Now Live: Google My Business Performance Report Direction Requests & Website Visits
Last month we reported that Google updated its documentation to say the new Google My Business performance report will soon have driving direction requests and website visits. Well now, according to Colan Nielsen, Google is rolling out those metrics slowly …
Google: Quality Is A Site Level Signal
I am not sure why there are such extreme divisions in the SEO industry around site level vs page level signals. Some say Google only uses page level signals for rankings and some say Google uses both, page and site …
How Do Google Algorithmic Slow Rollout Work?
Google often says that is algorithmic updates, be it core updates, page experience updates, and other search related updates can take several days to several weeks or even several months to fully roll out. What does that mean, how does …
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 16, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web… …
Google June 2021 Core Update Finished Rolling Out On Saturday, June 12th
Well, the June 2021 core update that was announced on June 2nd, began rolling out at 6:30pm ET on June 2nd, but was not really felt much until a few days later is officially done rolling out. It actually took …
Google Page Experience Update Rolling Out Between June 15 & End Of August
So yesterday, Google not only said the June 2021 core update finished rolling out on June 12th, but also said that on June 15th it began to start the slow process of rolling out the page experience update. Reminder, this …